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Telemedicine is widely seen as an important part of the solution to healthcare access challenges in India.There are already a number of public/private telemedicine projects serving millions of people across many states in India. Unfortunately, narrow bandwidths in India results in low quality of video consultations since connections are repeatedly interrupted and dropped. Our Team […]

Despite two decades of fairly strong economic growth, life expectancy in India is lower than most developed and developing countries and infant mortality rates continue to be high. The #Jugaadathon at Bangalore this weekend aims to find innovative solutions to overcome this shameful situation. Last year, GE and Glocal Healthcare partnered with Consortium for Affordable […]

Google ventures, Google’s venture capital arm invested more than one third of its investment money in healthcare and life sciences in 2014. Most of these new ventures are in hardware rather than software. Check this info-graphic to look at few of the things Google is working on in Healthcare. Includes; Smart Nano-particle pills to detect cancers […]

The USFDA has been in the process of drawing up specific guidelines for use of social media by Pharmaceutical industry. The draft (pdf) has been in the making for many years and outlines the FDA’s thinking on Social Media use by Pharmaceutical industry, specifically in Postmarketing Submissions of Interactive Promotional Media for Prescription drugs. The questions sought to […]

Some recent surveys coming out of the United States show that public acceptance of medical e-consults and online prescriptions is very high. Most Patients Willing To Have Online Video Doctor Visits, Survey Finds – iHealthBeat The survey was conducted among 2000+ American adults aged 18 years and over in December 2014. 70% of respondents said […]

Use of Digital Records in Healthcare is finally getting the recognition and the push it deserves in India. Technology has been changing healthcare, slowly but surely, in India over past 5-7 years. There have been numerous small successful projects in this space. There has been tremendous interest from both public and private sector players […]

That India has more mobile phones than toilets is a joke which may/ may not be funny, depending on the way you look at it. But given the reality of the huge reach of mobile phones, what are the benefits healthcare can draw from this trend? Since about 80% of Indians have access to mobile phones, […]